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Jian Wang

    An Illustrated Brief History of China
    Being Online
    Returning from Qingcheng Mountain
    Finding Women in the State
    Never Forget National Humiliation
    Climbing the Steps to Qingcheng Mountain
    • 2025

      A Reference Grammar of Jixi Hui

      • 300 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The Jixi language, part of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, features a diverse array of local dialects, often lacking mutual intelligibility. This book provides a thorough and systematic exploration of the Shangzhuang variety, spoken in Jixi county, southern Anhui, China. It delves into the language's complex affiliations, situated among the Wu, Gan, and Southern Mandarin linguistic regions, highlighting its unique characteristics and the ongoing discussions surrounding its classification.

      A Reference Grammar of Jixi Hui
    • 2021

      "A pioneer of cloud computing and big data offers his vision of the future world taking shape around us." -- inside front jacket flap

      Being Online
    • 2021

      Returning from Qingcheng Mountain

      • 366 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Functioning as both a dense manual, a detailed roadmap, and an edifying tale of spiritual maturity, this third installment in Wang Yun's best-selling series brings you rare and authentic Daoism, straight from the culture that gave birth to it. With clear instruction and dozens of illustrated and filmed exercises, you can begin or strengthen your spiritual practice, boost your immune system, and find deep peace of mind, all right from the comfort of your home.Lofty Daoist philosophy and its practical applications are made easy to grasp and apply through Wang Yun's effort to translate the old teachings on how to apply the mindset and skills of Daoist meditation, alchemy and qigong to all affairs of life. To this end, Returning from Qingcheng Mountain spins a blend of rare tales from Daoist lore, straightforward explanations of ways to shape the body and mind, and inspiring stories from Wang Yun's own practice path.To 'remain natural in all things' is the tenet that pervades every page, an eternal invitation toward being at ease, no matter the circumstances. By doing so, one returns to the world out there and handles mundane matters with poise and efficiency, transforming all the challenges and joys and relationships of daily life into a practice, a meditation, and a chance to grow and develop one's spirit, and by token, the body.

      Returning from Qingcheng Mountain
    • 2021

      The Book of Mirrors

      • 100 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      The Book of Mirrors is a silver portal opening to the hidden garden of a fragrant universe.

      The Book of Mirrors
    • 2020

      Clouds Over Qingcheng Mountain

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      The second book to Wang Yun's Climbing the Steps to Qingcheng Mountain. It covers Daoist practices such as posting and the Bodhidharma's Tendon Transformation Classic in twelve exercises. This volume has fewer stories than the first, but more guidance on the exercises, and provides tools to strenghten muscles, tendons and skeletal structure.

      Clouds Over Qingcheng Mountain
    • 2019

      A first-hand story of mentorship and commitment to traditions of the past and the ability to use them in the present, this translation of a Daoist memoir offers a means of persevering in the deep cultivation of body and mind. Written in an authentic tone, the author weaves tales of his youth with practical exercises for health and healing.

      Climbing the Steps to Qingcheng Mountain
    • 2019

      This book mainly investigates the precision predictions on the signal of new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) scheme. The potential of the LHC to discover the signal of dark matter associated production with a photon is studied after including next-to-leading order QCD corrections. The factorization and resummation of t-channel top quark transverse momentum distribution in the standard model at both the Tevatron and the LHC with soft-collinear effective theory are presented. The potential of the early LHC to discover the signal of monotops is discussed. These examples illustrate the method of searching for new physics beyond what is known today with high precision.

      QCD Higher-Order Effects and Search for New Physics
    • 2018

      This book investigates the industrial agglomeration and dispersion within a country under trade liberalization and interregional integration by considering both economic forces and geographical elements. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction about the background, research topics and organizations in this book. Chapter 2 provides a detailed explanation of Krugman’s new economic geography (NEG) model and reviews the subsequent refinements of the original model from mainly geographical viewpoints. Chapter 3 extends Krugman’s original model to a two-country and three-region case where the domestic regions are fully asymmetrical in terms of their sizes and accessibilities to global markets. To better explain the reality of developing countries, chapter 4 presents an analytical model which assumes that unskilled workers are employed in both traditional and manufacturing sectors. Chapter 5 empirically investigates the home market effect (HME) in terms of wages in the case of China by using panel data for the period 1980–2012. Chapter 6 gives a summary and implication about the findings and conclusions in this book.

      Economic Analysis of Industrial Agglomeration
    • 2017

      An Illustrated Brief History of China

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
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      This illustrated Chinese history book takes the reader on a visual journey of the most brilliant and significant segments of Chinese civilization over the course of five thousand years. As a cradle of human civilization, China has maintained its cohesion and cultural identity for thousands of years. With China's historical evolution as a backdrop, each section focuses on the outstanding achievements of the period it covers and sets out the long-established and profound cultural development of the Chinese nation.

      An Illustrated Brief History of China
    • 2016

      Finding Women in the State

      • 398 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
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      Presents a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the party.

      Finding Women in the State